ISBN-13: 9783540638186 / Angielski / Miękka / 1997 / 290 str.
This tutorial survey brings together two lines of research and development, the interaction of which promises to have significant practical impact on the area of spatial information processing in the near future: geographic information systems (GIS) and geometric computation or, more particularly, geometric algorithms and spatial data structures. In nine uniformly structured chapters, the authors present a survey ranging from the history and basic characteristics to current issues of precision and robustness of geometric computing.